Wallenstein / Valdštejn Garden ? Prague 1, Lesser Town (Praha hl.m.)

Wallenstein Palace Gardens is the former residence of Albrecht von Wallenstein, who gained favour with the emperor Ferdinand II by saving the empire from the Swedes and Protestants during the Thirty Years' War. In the year1623 he began to build his magnificent palace with its idiosyncratic high-walled gardens and superb, vaulted Renaissance sala terrena (room opened into a garden). The garden's formal paths wind their way around statues, an unusual fountain with a woman spouting water from her breasts, and a lava-stone grotto along the wall. Most of the palace itself now serves the Czech Senate as meeting chamber and offices.

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